Make a release-notes video from a changelog in a minute
A practical routine: keep a release-notes template, let your AI fill it from the changelog, check the quality warnings and render the MP4 in your browser.
Most changelogs are read by nobody. A thirty-second video of the same list is watched by more people, and it is not much more work if the template is already yours.
Once: make the template yours#
Start from the release-notes template. Choose a theme and a brand, a size (1080p for a site, vertical for stories) and your logo. Save the result as a template of your own, so the look is fixed and only the content changes.
Every release: the routine#
- Copy the changelog of the release. Keep to three or four items; a viewer cannot read more in twelve seconds.
- Ask your AI to fill the template. Through Geenius OS it reads the template's schema and a valid sample, creates a draft video and returns a link. The prompt can be as short as: "Make release notes for v2.4 from this changelog using my release template, check it with lint and give me the link."
- Open the link and watch the preview. The preview is the render's drawing, so what you see is what you get.
- Read the warnings. If an item is too long to read in the time it has, shorten it. Reading speed is counted at about three and a half words a second.
- Press render. The MP4 is made in your browser. Download it or save it to your Media library.
Why a person renders#
Rendering runs in a browser with WebCodecs, on your machine. An AI cannot do that, and in practice that is not a limit: the step where you watch the preview is the one worth keeping.
Small things that help#
- Put the version number in the first scene and nothing else: it is what people search for.
- Use the same item order as the changelog, so the video and the text agree.
- Re-size to vertical in one click for the short version.